The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Past Winners
2012 Frances Wilson for How to Survive The Titanic (Bloomsbury) £5,000
2011 Philip Ziegler for Edward Heath – The Authorised Biography (HarperPress) £5,000
2010 Tristram Hunt for The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (Allen Lane) £5,000
2009 Mark Bostridge for Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend (Viking) - £5,000
2008 Rosemary Hill God’s Architect – Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane) £5,000
2007 Jessie Childs Henry VIII’s Last Victim – The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Cape) £3,000
2006 Charles Williams Pétain (Little, Brown) £3,000
2005 Ian Kershaw Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War (Penguin Allen Lane) £3,000
2004 Katie Whitaker Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic (Chatto & Windus) £3,000
2003 David Gilmour The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (John Murray) £3,000